The implementation of the Russian space program “Sphere” will cost 800 billion rubles, reports TASS, the statement of the general director of “Roscosmos” Dmitry Rogozin, made at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
“Of these, 500 billion is off-budget,” the head added.
In November 2020, a member of the board of the Russian Military-Industrial Commission, Alexander Ivanov, said that for the creation of the super-heavy rocket Yenisei, the deployment of the Sphere near-Earth satellite system and the modernization of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), Roscosmos is asking for trillions of rubles from the state budget …
According to the official magazine of the state corporation “Russian Space”, published in the same month, by 2030 Roscosmos will launch about 600 satellites of the “Sphere” system, the “analogues” of which are the Western projects Starlink and OneWeb.
In February of the same year, the director of the department for promising programs and the Sphere project of Roscosmos, Sergei Prokhorov, said that the creation of the Russian multifunctional satellite system Sphere would require extra-budgetary investments in the amount of more than 350 billion rubles.
